heathpitts
Registered
Well,
I am approaching the anniversary of my first purchase of a Mac. I first bought a PowerMac G4 Cube. Coolest computer ever! I used it for the first 8 months or so for everything from email to web design. I bought .mac, made a book in iphoto, bought songs in iTunes, bought an ipod...you know general computer stuff.
I recently purchased my second Mac. A Powerbook 12. It is simply the best computer I have ever owned. I figured out the useability of a Mac when I learned all the keyboard commands. These simply make a laptop useable.
After that I bought a Tivo series 2 with the Home Media Option. I tried setting this up with a linksys 802.11b router that I have. This sucked since I don't have high speed access and was very unreliable as far as connecting to the Tivo desktop from my Cube. I believe it was a dns problem because tivo would see it fine if I had my xp machine that was sharing a modem dialed into the internet. (yuck! XP!) So I bought the Airport Extreme Base Station with modem and antenna port. This thing is great! Tivo sees the Cube without fault every time now. Now with this I can take my final windows machine off my network and be mac only, well except when I game, which is not often.
So everything I have purchased from Apple, besides my PB 12's backlight being burnt out when I got it, has been exceptional.
As a profession I am a PC support and repair technician/Web Designer. I had been using a win box for 13 years since I was 12. I work on pc's all day and I see the problems that people always have with them. It is such a breath of fresh air to use a mac and things be simple. Things also work reliably unlike many things on the pc side. I have switched completely to Macs now and I can't ever see myself going back. I really feel like mac users have had it right all along and the windows users just don't know what they are missing. Hey! I guess the switch campaign worked on someone!
Well, that was my year in review, sorry to waste some of your time.
I am approaching the anniversary of my first purchase of a Mac. I first bought a PowerMac G4 Cube. Coolest computer ever! I used it for the first 8 months or so for everything from email to web design. I bought .mac, made a book in iphoto, bought songs in iTunes, bought an ipod...you know general computer stuff.
I recently purchased my second Mac. A Powerbook 12. It is simply the best computer I have ever owned. I figured out the useability of a Mac when I learned all the keyboard commands. These simply make a laptop useable.
After that I bought a Tivo series 2 with the Home Media Option. I tried setting this up with a linksys 802.11b router that I have. This sucked since I don't have high speed access and was very unreliable as far as connecting to the Tivo desktop from my Cube. I believe it was a dns problem because tivo would see it fine if I had my xp machine that was sharing a modem dialed into the internet. (yuck! XP!) So I bought the Airport Extreme Base Station with modem and antenna port. This thing is great! Tivo sees the Cube without fault every time now. Now with this I can take my final windows machine off my network and be mac only, well except when I game, which is not often.
So everything I have purchased from Apple, besides my PB 12's backlight being burnt out when I got it, has been exceptional.
As a profession I am a PC support and repair technician/Web Designer. I had been using a win box for 13 years since I was 12. I work on pc's all day and I see the problems that people always have with them. It is such a breath of fresh air to use a mac and things be simple. Things also work reliably unlike many things on the pc side. I have switched completely to Macs now and I can't ever see myself going back. I really feel like mac users have had it right all along and the windows users just don't know what they are missing. Hey! I guess the switch campaign worked on someone!
Well, that was my year in review, sorry to waste some of your time.
